Renaat Braem (1910-2001), a 1935 graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, is one of the most notable figures in Belgian 20th century architecture. Between 1936 and 1937, he found himself working for Le Corbusier in Paris. There he explored the French master's sensibility for space and form. Whereas his early projects from before World War II were still rooted in a rectangular, formal language, his work from the 1950s slowly took on the softer forms of new organic approaches. This new work appeared on the scene at the same time that interest was growing in the concrete plasticity of later Brutalism. During the 1950s and 1960s, Braem combined his interest in expressive architectural forms with his bent for social responsibility. He completed a series of housing estates in Antwerp, including the Kiel neighbourhood (1951–1958) and the Arenawijk neighbourhood (1960 - 1965), in addition to other large-scale housing complexes in Leuven, Brussels and Boom. Meanwhile, Braem also b… continue
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